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Vatican message for World Tourism Day focuses on AI (Vatican Press Office)

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, issued a message for World Tourism Day entitled “Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence to Redesign Tourism.”

“We are called to rediscover the profound meaning of travel: not as an escape from reality, but as a journey towards creation, towards others, and towards God,” Archbishop Fisichella wrote. “It is indeed necessary to preserve the vision of the person as a relational being, free, capable of wonder, and the bearer of an inalienable dignity that no algorithm will ever be able to fully capture.”

The prelate’s message, dated May 26, was released on June 11; World Tourism Day is commemorated on September 27.

Since 2023, the Dicastery for Evangelization has issued the Vatican’s message for World Tourism Day; previously, the message was issued by the Pope (until 2004), the Secretary of State (2007), the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples (2006, 2008-2016), or the Dicastery for Promoting Human Development (2017-2022).

US bishops approve revisions to Dallas charter (Pillar)

The US bishops, in a 176-22 vote, approved revisions to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, originally adopted in Dallas in 2002 and revised in 2005, 2011, and 2018.

Under the revisions, the Charter will remain focused on the sexual abuse of minors, amid calls for a revised charter to address the sexual abuse of adults. A motion by Archbishop Shawn McKnight of Kansas City, Kansas, to delay a vote on the proposed revisions failed by a 126-73 margin.

Embrace the cross and cultivate a Eucharistic spirituality, Pope tells priests, religious of Canary Islands (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the Canary Islands’ bishops, priests, religious, seminarians, and pastoral workers to embrace the cross and to cultivate a Eucharistic spirituality.

Be transformed by the love of the Sacred Heart, Pope preaches on Canary Islands (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the Mass of the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Gran Canaria Stadium last evening (video 1, video 2) and encouraged his hearers to be transformed by the humble love of the Sacred Heart.

Pope leaves Barcelona for Canary Islands, highlights plight of migrants (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV departed from Barcelona on June 11, the penultimate day of his apostolic journey to Spain, and arrived in the Canary Islands (video 1, video 2).

US bishops consecrate nation to Sacred Heart of Jesus (USCCB)

The bishops of the United States consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart on June 11, the vigil of the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The consecration, offered during the nation’s 250th anniversary year, took place during a Mass in Orlando, at the Basilica of Mary, Queen of the Universe (video).

“In a culture that prizes independence and self-reliance, we gather publicly to acknowledge that our deepest identity and our truest hope come, not from ourselves but from the Lord,” Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore preached. “Today we place the Church in the United States, and this nation we love, into the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”

In preparation for the consecration, three archbishops offered reflections on the Sacred Heart.